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Nutan and Amy hard at work on the subtitles. Did I mention it was hard work?

So, in parts of the world that aren’t North America, they have this game called soccer. Actually they call it football, but when you’re an American and not talking about the NFL kind, you always need to say that first bit.

Football has been throwing itself a party in Europe here in the last month, and since Nepal is situated several time zones away from that continent, matches are broadcast late at night. Quite natural and fair enough, right?

Right.

Except that all of our tapes are in the hands of a rabid soccer football fan–our transcriber–whose day job work schedule is also being violently disrupted by the strikes and make-up days and various other crises that’ve been entertaining us here of late. Poor guy’s being pulled in three ways:

Career (his teaching job) | Money (our transcription job) | Love (the Euro Cup)

So basically our moonlighting language helper is too tired to put in the kind of lunatic all-nighter schedule we take for granted. All because of the soccer freaks in Europe and their poncy Euro Cup or whatever it’s called.

Just kidding, those guys are total jocks, etc. Thank god it’s over.

We’re seriously down to the wire on getting all our stuff translated/subtitled before we leave, which as I type is in two days’ time.

Yipe!